BETA PATCH v.1.07.18301 - June 29, 2012

[Jatta Raso]

first impressions: very positive

as always i'm among the most blessed when it comes to side effects etc, nothing weird to report besides the grass on the hangers; no trees massed pop ups, no roads between channel, no FPS drop with clouds, nothing weird in the landscape thus far; i did see grass flashing on the screen once, when about to land

- clouds seem to pop on/off less
- the bullets ricochet really nice and render further, both mine and the AC nearby, overall a big thumbs up for tracers.

as for FM,
- the radiator now seems to affect speed
- i see it's noticeably harder to overheat the Spit IIa
- seems to be harder to enter a spin in the Spit
- enjoying improved speeds, like 290mph sea level; seems easier to catch those buzzard 109s, i'm certain they were having quite a harder time, they've been enjoying far to much advantage lately
- throttle back to good behavior
- blessings be heard, it's finally possible to climb up to 20000ft and maintain speed (didn't try any further yet; before beta 2 the engine died on me above 14500ft)

negative
- stutters slightly up, but not troublesome
- FPS drop remains when more than 2 nearby human AC
- sometimes the enemy human AC display a jumpy behavior, but that could've been lag

last comments:
- to all affected by glitches, test disable or reduce the graphics card OC if you have it; i have none, perhaps CLoD it's too sensitive about that?
- i had the new nvidia beta drivers before this patch (had previous beta) and can confirm it did very well for the stutters, had them reduced almost to none (especially noticeable on take offs)
- remember (once again) to delete the conf.ini on "C:\Users\USER NAME\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover" and empty the cache folder on the same path
- tested online on 4 flights in ATAG

edit:
negative:
- spoke too soon about the trees, now i get the massed pop up on a narrow square around the plane
positive:
- the stukas now have dive siren, heard them when pursuing a wing diving over hawkinge; how cool is that?
- better MG sounds with the browning

[Royraiden]

Can anyone post a video showing off the tracers and richochets?

[Feathered_IV]

Ho hum. No improvements for me. Frames per second still capped at 27fps on high settings, and stays at 27 even when turning everything down to lowest. Not quite high enough to play, but just enough to piss me off.

I5 2500k, 16Gb DDR3, 1 Gb GTS450.

[jimmythedeath]

Stop Haterading, being a douche, Blaming 1C for all YOUR computer problems. If you have a super Clean Machine the Game Runs Great. YES I can not HATE, I have Hated tooin the past at 1c. But the DAY HAS Come I am now rejoicing that the MICRO SHUTTER is all but gone from my system and this game for me that is. Now I run Dual Force GT3 128 GIG SSD SATA3 in a raid 0 for my C:\OS/gaming drive. , GTX 580 3gig, sys mem DDR3 8gig of SLI ram The GAME was un-playable for me in a way since the last patch.

Now i can say i enjoyed my first and second flights in the new patch
i must say THANK you to all the 1C team that have made it possible to play your game with other people now.
I am so excited now about all your new and up coming content that i can now PLAY your game.
I will not be asking for a discount,
i will not be asking for any special price of future content.
i will pay what you ask,

all i ask in return is that you treat me with the respect and dignity. by only offering your product up for retail pricing when it is ready for that stage, We will all Pay to be in a beta with Weekly/ or monthly or even Yearly, updates But we should not be subjected to this at a retail cost.

WE ARE HERE FOR YOU Please respect the commercial act for selling a product For witch Now is only playable for me. Yes i also bought 2 copies.


thank you again
X Hater


P.S. the new sounds on the spit guns are Dope, just noticed. Bad ass 1c bad ass

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Ho hum. No improvements for me. Frames per second still capped at 27fps on high settings, and stays at 27 even when turning everything down to lowest. Not quite high enough to play, but just enough to piss me off.

I5 2500k, 16Gb DDR3, 1 Gb GTS450.

Il2 Clod, does not work like most games. Imagine you have a puzzle in a box (your PC) and all the pieces to make that puzzle in your hands ( your settings) you have to match the settings to your PC in a strange way. Some times more is better with Clodo... You NEED some things on high and some on medium etc, its not as obvious as it seems in my opinion.

Tinker

[Feathered_IV]

I know what you mean. I think I've pretty much exhausted every combination of settings though, so I'll just set the game aside again until some later date.

[Buchon]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Ho hum. No improvements for me. Frames per second still capped at 27fps on high settings, and stays at 27 even when turning everything down to lowest. Not quite high enough to play, but just enough to piss me off.

I5 2500k, 16Gb DDR3, 1 Gb GTS450.

I don't see why are you pissed, 27 FPS is a pretty good result in a GTS 450.

[Stiboo]

I, like many will wait for the actual patch, but thanks for all the feedback..sounds like a step forward.

Remember it's a Beta !

Has anyone looked at the Spit skins/weathering?

Is the Spit still stuck on max weathering ?

Still waiting for the game to 'settle down' before doing any campaign building...


Regards

Simon

[il_corleone]

Originally Posted by Stiboo

I, like many will wait for the actual patch, but thanks for all the feedback..sounds like a step forward.

Remember it's a Beta !

Has anyone looked at the Spit skins/weathering?

Is the Spit still stuck on max weathering ?

Still waiting for the game to 'settle down' before doing any campaign building...


Regards

Simon

The wheatering effect its now fixed on all planes

[touchdown42]

Well, this one is definitely worse than the last beta (+fix) for me

Over populated areas fps went down from 25 to 15-20 so that it is just not fluid anymore and stutters are definitely much worse for me.
Especially noticeable when panning around with TrackIR. Looking around from front of the cockpit to the planes six i have at least 2-3 pauses ( each perhaps 1/10 sec. long ).
Very distracting ...

Bummer, have to disable shadows again. With last beta i was able to enable shadows and have a fluid sensation of flight even over large cities, not anymore ....

Just had a furball over Hastings on ATAG with 4-6 planes. FPS went down to lower 10th, perhaps even below. From memory this was not the case with last beta.

i7-2600K
8GB
ATI 6950 22GB
Win7/64